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🇺🇸ChicagoStudentInternPosted March 19, 2026

About the Role

IMC is a global trading firm seeking PhD talent for internships and fellowships in a cutting-edge research environment. We are a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity since 1989. Our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals work within a uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture across offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India.

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About the Company

IMC Trading

Amsterdam, Netherlands

IMC Trading is a global proprietary trading firm and high-frequency market maker specializing in quantitative research, algorithmic trading, and liquidity provision across major asset classes. Founded in 1989, IMC operates across 10 offices worldwide, trading on more than 120 venues in equities, listed options, ETFs, futures, FX, and crypto. IMC is a top-3 liquidity provider by volume in global listed options and serves as Lead Market Maker in over 150 US ETFs. The firm combines cutting-edge technology infrastructure — including thousands of servers across 9 countries — with petabytes of daily data processing to power its trading strategies. IMC offers institutional clients direct liquidity access through options wholesaling, institutional sales desks, ETF market making, and crypto solutions covering spot, perpetuals, futures, and options. With over 1,900 employees from 70+ nationalities, IMC competes at the frontier of quantitative finance through cross-functional teams in quant research, software engineering, and trading.

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Job Details

Experience: Student
Type: Intern
Posted: March 19, 2026
Company Size: 1000-5000 employees